I was wondering if i could emulate the vi editor feature 'search highlight' in sublime. in vi when you stand on a word/marked phrase, and press the * key, the word/phrase is highlighted all over the opened file, this highlight is sticky till you remove it or choose another word highlight.

i find it very useful. and i use vi all the time. i tried to emulate it using the sublime API, but couldn't find any way to do it. any ideas? moreover it would be awesome if one could do many highlights with different colors for each search pattern (which in vi is possible using a user plugin addition)